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Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

ITT: People who don't know as much as me.

All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.

OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.

The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I'll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah seriously... the fact that only 2 or so commenters correctly understood the headline reflects poorly on the community

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